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Warren discusses fight to end systemic racism as some discuss her as potential VP
While many Black women are calling for Joe Biden to choose someone who looks like them as his running mate, others say the White woman they are open to is Elizabeth Warren.
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‘We can’t be selective on what Black lives matter and what Black lives don’t,' says Philly race and gender activist
Sharron Cooks, 42, founder of Making Our Lives Easier, says the recent unrest roiling the country has marked a return to the origins of Pride, which celebrates the 1969 Stonewall uprising.
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Breonna Taylor’s death looms over Kentucky’s primary election
Organizers in Louisville say many voters told them that Breonna Taylor was on their minds as they cast their ballots.
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Kamala Harris wants America to turn protest into policy. Is she the one to make it happen?
In many ways, Harris’s career stands as a nexus: between cries to “defund the police” and to compromise and legislate.
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Are White women finally waking up?
Amid nationwide protests, White women are reckoning with racism—and their own complicity. -
‘It helps me know that I am not in it alone anymore’: Breonna Taylor’s mother on her daughter and protests
Instead of celebrating what should have been the day her daughter turned 27, Tamika Palmer was in mourning.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar on race, justice and the pandemic
The Minnesota senator addresses her record on race and lessons on inequity she's learned from the pandemic.
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‘This invokes a history of terror’: Central Park incident between White woman and Black man is part of a fraught legacy
The incident is rooted in an idea, backed by generations of violence, that White womanhood is to be protected and that Black men are inherently criminal.
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Family seeks answers in fatal police shooting of Louisville woman in her apartment
On March 13, the 26-year-old aspiring nurse was killed in her apartment, shot eight times by Louisville police officers who officials have said were executing a drug warrant. The family has sued.
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Black activists and officials see a major threat in South’s plans to reopen
A coalition of mostly Black female activists is asking public health officials to extend their stay-at-home orders.